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Friday, July 11, 2014

Cover Lust: For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund

Cover Lust is something that I do every week where I feature a book cover that I absolutely love!

It's been several generations since a genetic experiment
gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a
Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.

Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four
years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant
Kai, choosing duty to her family's estate over love. Since then the world has
changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of
progress, and Elliot's estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the
mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer
Captain Malakai Wentforth--an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliot
wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show
Elliot exactly what she gave up when she let him go.

But Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a
secret--one that could change their society . . . or bring it to its knees. And
again, she's faced with a choice: cling to what she's been raised to believe,
or cast her lot with the only boy she's ever loved, even if she's lost him forever.

Inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion, For
Darkness Shows the Stars is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to
the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it.

I love outer space and I find images of outer space beautiful, especially ones that feature stars. So, it's no surprise that I adore this cover. But while the stars are beautiful, and I LOVE them, I also really like the typography and how the text goes from pink to yellow to orange.